> So IrDA SIR mode uses async mode which and has to be framed and stuffed in
> software. MIR and FIR mode are however handled in hardware, and those chips
> has very frame oriented interfaces. So we don't really need any
>From what I seen (pc87108, tir2000), even at MIR/FIR speeds hardware
looks like serial with length-of-packet added. I actually implemented
tir2000 FIR driver as tty - it adds frame begining/end when it
absolutely musts. Being tty has certain advantages in my eyes: most
interesting is "i'm able to test it with simple commands like cat and
echo". Also, being tty I could try to run something else than irda
over that line (for example scarab).
> HDLC TTY handling. In my view IrDA device drivers are network device
> drivers, irtty is actually a line discipline in bottom and a network device
Is it possible to write tty-over-netdevice driver? I would quite like
to be able to transfer data over point-to-point ethernet using zmodem
protocol ;-).
Pavel
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